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The problem here is MS having a target of 30% profit for their games. So if Avowed/TOW2 came in at 20% profit, which by any measure would be a success story, the mere mention of them "not meeting sales targets" sets off an avalanche of "the games bombed/were a failure" type of unfair asinine comments which undermines those games and Obsidian's reputation. :(

Oh, I always used ashes. With summons I meant another player. Man, I am enjoying Cyberpunk 2077 more than I should. Nightcity is such a dystopian paradise. I just wish Jackie would stop saying 'Madre' every five minutes.

^ Tainted Grail has that wonderful first half, and then it's an "ok" 2nd half. Very front loaded. Not that it becomes bad or something. But that first impression isn't ever quite matched. They've patched that 3rd act and I suppose it became a tad better but eh. But yeah, I had lots of fun with it. Anyway - I finally tamed a pet cat in Enshrouded. The cat is cute I suppose - if you pet it you get a small tiny health buff and it often runs to you and meows - but it sure eats a lot. I "locked" it in my bases main chr. bedroom (I've heard pets can get rather lost in this game), where the cat gets the zoomies and seems to run along wall edges/behind furniture, just like a real cat. Sadly, it does not jump on top of bookshelves, which is not like a real cat. Not sure I'll keep it out or stick it in storage. Am not taming the dog.

itch.ioNo ICE in Minnesota by jesthehuman and 651 othersNo ICE in Minnesota: 1439 items for $10.00 There are a few interesting titles, though also surprisingly many TTRPGs. https://hempuli.itch.io/baba https://hthr.itch.io/extreme-meatpunks-forever - beat 'em up action + VN, which I liked. https://peachykeengames.itch.io/calico - boring, but functional https://bucketdrumgames.itch.io/bitrat https://tngineers.itch.io/mudborne https://linker.itch.io/elephantasy - played the sequel, it was a somewhat difficult platformer-Metroidvania https://pd-cgt.itch.io/somnabuster2024 https://knifedemon.itch.io/brush-burial - my Steam wishlist, im-sim/stealth-action https://rocketadrift.itch.io/psychroma - my Steam wishlist, horror-puzzle https://devonwiersma.itch.io/lofty-quest https://zorkie.itch.io/quality-dreams-reasonably-priced - my Steam wishlist, management VN https://standing-cat.itch.io/nekomancer-of-nowhere https://glitch-creative.itch.io/optica https://crawlabeegames.itch.io/ale-aftercare

Couldn't find this in English, but: Neues RPG statt Kingdom Come 3: Bericht verrät, woran Warhorse Studios wirklich arbeitet Warhorse seem to be working on an all-new RPG -- self-funded (KCD2 must have made loads of cash given that it made its money back a day or two after launch....) One of the few new bigger budget projects to be genuinelly curious about whatever it may be. As this is so not what a decision maker / money giver at your typical studio / publisher would ever have to say:

It's not about porn, it's about censorship. The government can now ban sites that it deems "dangerous". It's a soft ban, but it will slow traffic to a crawl given that most people want nothing to do with the government id app that would be needed to unlock said sites. Said soft ban could be used as leverage for any number of political or repressive reasons. Soon enough there will be "dangerous ideas" that the children must be protected from. You can't just hope that governments won't abuse their power, they will, given enough time. So you have to be certain of your rights instead.

That was my reaction to when Deadfire launched -- to nowhere near the buzz as PoE. To be fair, Eternity1, unlike Original Sin, was always big time sold on nostalgia, and eventually, that crave for the good ol' days may be fulfilled. Still, in the case of PoE, it's certainly not the "type of game" at fault -- or Owlcat wouldn't have rolled these things plus DLC plus Enhanced Editions en masse from an Eastern European CRPG factory line. :D In the case of TOW, it's not the type of game either, see Fallout New Vegas. What would have bummed me out (and kinda did) with TOW1 is that it was announced as a sort of Vegas-Like project (see the announcement trailers... "From thy builders of Vegas!"). And then was more like a baby's version of an Obsidian game, of one I've played better versions of before (not talking size, but depth). The entire industry is struggling a bit atm though. And if you ask me, the thing to notice recently has been about specilization -- of picking an experience and going all-in on it rather than watering it down so that everybody may be onboard. A game like Kingdom Come would have never seen the light of day at Bioware, Bethesda and Obsidian -- see how Josh had been hoping to make a historical game since forever, but bosses would go: "Nobody would buy that." And even FromSoft exploded by Elden Ring -- a title likewise that would have never seen the light of day at most of the old Western powerhouses of the industry, as deemed as too "inaccessible". These games were allowed to excel at what they were targeting -- and attracted added people simply by doing so, making them curious what's so "special" and "unique" about them. Warhorse have talked about how many history buffs they got onboard who aren't even hardcore gamers, for instance. As a side-effect, Warhorse are now pretty much the only top dogs on the "historical RPG" block too -- there simply is nobody around making a game like them on the scale of them, zero direct competition. Loot and combat and dwarves and elves and Pip-Boys? Dime a dozen. It's actually not just games. See also music, where there are few omnipresent superstars still left that everybody and their cat owns a record of. And rather, everyone tends to build their own streaming playlists, tailored towards them specifically. The market here too has exploded so much that everybody will eventually find something fit to their tastes. (Over 19,000 games released on Steam alone in 2025). One thing is clear though: Chasing trends with dev cycles of 4-7 years ain't gonna cut it. By that point that trend is long old hat. And everybody else chasing it as well may have already picked up what was left of all the buzz once you're finally ready to ship yourself. :D

And exactly because of what you said about the risks in this industry, expecting every single game to have 30% margin is IMHO damaging, as there are only few games which could boast with such a margin in last 6 years. According to Bloomberg, the average profit margin in the video game industry is 17-22%. Over the past six years, Xbox has hit 10-20%. To put that 30% target into more context, Sony's PlayStation division achieved a 16% profit margin in Q1 FY25. Link to mentioned Bloomberg article behind paywall, if anyone owns access to them: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-23/microsoft-pushes-xbox-studios-to-hit-higher-profit-margins

Avowed could never be Elders Scrolls, because one big part of it being so popular still is it's easy moddability. I don't know why they just can't see this. If you put out your game on Unreal, there won't be any mods. The game will be forgotten in a month. This happens all the time with those games. You need mods, to keep people in the loop. Making mods for Bethsoft games is so incredibly easy that anyone can do it. Sure they sell more on consoles than PC yadda-yadda, but mods in the news are what brings people back over and over. Hell, you just have to look at Skyrim or FNV Nexus. The amount of mods for those games is crazy.

That's upsetting. These games are very much for me. I don't finish a lot of games, but for some reason, Avowed and OW2 captured my attention and held it until the end. I'm disappointed that they aren't doing better financially. In comparison, while I enjoyed BG3, I never finished it. They did seem to do well critically, so I hope it isn't just unreasonable sales expectations. I don't know, I just hope Obsidian doesn't end up in another hole. They've been remarkably resilient so far.

Alone in the Dark original trilogy as a Giveaway on GOG. https://www.gog.com/en/news/alone_in_the_dark_trilogy_giveaway_as_a_celebration_of_what_we_achieved_together

Necro'ing to say that this build was as fun as advertised. Thanks for the work to build and share it. I completed a BPM Triple Crown - kill all the things - run and the poet carried the group! I swapped out chanter for Fury Shaper barbarian, which was slightly less fast (if my math is correct), but equally fun. I found myself not messing much with the imbues because of expert mode, but it ran on auto-pilot for the most part, which is another kind of bonus. @Aestus and @thelee talk about this in their class tier list conversation, but having a strong build that can run well without much micro, is great in RTWP party play, where there is a finite limit to player micro capacity. Great for Megabosses - somewhat trivializes HoW and Belranga, who can be interrupted.

Looks like a pre-made MC and silly system requirements. I'd say "at least it's not UE5", but it is not a high bar to clear. The combat might be fine, but the visual noise is incredibly annoying. Thus, I might consider getting it for $5 in 5 years. Edit. It does look like TW3 and I strongly disliked that game. While TES VI is development, Ardenfall is closing onto the release date (the last I've heard, "early 2026"). Ardenfall on SteamArdenfall is an immersive RPG set in a world of intricate politics and ancient cultures. Explore flowing plains, rain drenched wetlands, and forgotten dungeons full of danger. Meet countless interesti https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/grapeocean/avaria-iron-rule The Black Geyser developers are preparing to launch a crowdfinding campaign for their new game. The description sounds appealing, even if their previous title was somewhat uneven. The survey: https://forms.gle/ibSV87UBjA9aYoXn8

It was bit sarcastic joke. Last summer I said that I don't believe that US strikes were able to eliminate Iran's nuclear program only ensure that they will seek nuclear weapon

UK. The Green Party of England and Wales won the by-election in Gorton and Denton, leading by 40%. Reform UK (Trump-lite) came second, while the 2 major parties were further behind. It is a promising sight that a party which values human rights, animal rights, and the environment can also be victorious and have the power to implement these ideals. This by-election also shows that we do not have to be locked into a 2-party system.

Valve getting sued in New York for loot boxes. Or at least, that's the headline version. Seems to be more about there being a marketplace for selling the results of loot boxes than the mechanic itself, which is why they're targeting Valve/ Steam specifically instead of other who just use loot boxes. IMO, should have happened way sooner.

https://fortune.com/2026/02/24/discord-peter-thiel-backed-persona-identity-verification-breach/ "In addition to verifying a user’s age, researchers found Persona performs 269 distinct verification checks, including screening for “adverse media” across 14 different categories such as terrorism and espionage. It then assigns risk and similarity scores to user information." So basically, what we expected to happen with the age verification crap is exactly what happened - in fact, it's even worse. They wouldn't just use your data for ai training, you also get put into a huge ICE / FinCEN / terror watchlist database. /Edit: Here is a video about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCi9Uq5GZ18 None of this is about protecting the children - if they wanted to do that, they would jail their pedophile elite.

Russian posts from 4 years ago. Aged like milk. State media saying that Ukrainians where surrendering on mass. And that they lost in 1h23m.

Finally! Was waiting so long. Didn't want to buy a PS5 for literally a single game, since everything that interests me nowadays comes to PC anyways. But 80€ ... I'm going to wait.

Did they actually call it GNU??? 😎 I know GNU as one of two things. The animal also called wildebeest or a license for open source software

Supreme Court Shocks World by Correctly Declaring Trump's Global Tariffs Unconstitutional Edit: Whoops I guess I wasnt on the last page when I added this.

I think I can beat him later on since I didn't jump into NG+. Also, I never cheese bosses. I also didn't have a single summon throughout the entire game. On topic of Cyberpunk 2077: it looks pretty. Having fun with it. I wonder if I will have the same amount of fun I had with Witcher 3. That thing took something around 300 hours of my time. Almost double that of the time it took me to beat Elden Ring.

Finished Elden Ring. 160 hours(120 base game + 40 dlc) Did not bother beating Radahn, Tree sentinels or morning star beast. Because I have more important things to do, bought Cyberpunk 2077 Ultimate Edition for the PS5. does helicopter dance to techno music

Norse: Oath of Blood is a fun game, when it works. I hear it is about 13 hours of content. I assume 20 of those hours are trying to get save games to load.

The latest update added respawning mobs to the game, and I understand that a lot of people asked for this feature and I'm not asking for its removal, only for the option to turn it off. It’s genuinely a hassle having to clear a horde of enemies every single time and makes me put in less effort into exploration.

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Well, I just played through act 1 with the new class and so far I like it. The new QOL changes are good too. I've converted 2 of my old characters now as well, because so far I see no reason not to. Honestly, this is kinda what I wanted all along.. more content for this game. Now I wish they would add new quests, dungeons, or terrains, that would be nice.

The construction system is currently very neglected... To improve the quality outside of the story and to ensure more sustainable long-term enjoyment, this should be supplemented with a careful patch. At the very least, it should match its predecessor — ideally, of course, it should improve upon it. My List: Every wall panel adjustable at 45° (Not just the big panels) ¼ Stairs ½ Railing for stairs ¼ Floor triangles Change the Repair-Omni-Tool back to a craft item or any other solution. (Its horrible to see permanent damaged building parts). My community and I have already invested a great deal of time in both Grounded 1 and Grounded 2. These changes would significantly improve the overall quality of the game. Thank you for your great work !!! 😁

"As everyone knows, the Country of Canada has treated the United States very unfairly for decades. Now, things are turning around for the U.S.A., and FAST! But imagine, Canada is building a massive bridge between Ontario and Michigan. They own both the Canada and the United States side and, of course, built it with virtually no U.S. content. President Barack Hussein Obama stupidly gave them a waiver so they could get around the BUY AMERICAN Act, and not use any American products, including our Steel. Now, the Canadian Government expects me, as President of the United States, to PERMIT them to just “take advantage of America!” What does the United States of America get — Absolutely NOTHING! Ontario won't even put U.S. spirits, beverages, and other alcoholic products, on their shelves, they are absolutely prohibited from doing so and now, on top of everything else, Prime Minister Carney wants to make a deal with China — which will eat Canada alive. We’ll just get the leftovers! I don't think so. The first thing China will do is terminate ALL Ice Hockey being played in Canada, and permanently eliminate The Stanley Cup. The Tariffs Canada charges us for our Dairy products have, for many years, been unacceptable, putting our Farmers at great financial risk. I will not allow this bridge to open until the United States is fully compensated for everything we have given them, and also, importantly, Canada treats the United States with the Fairness and Respect that we deserve. We will start negotiations, IMMEDIATELY. With all that we have given them, we should own, perhaps, at least one half of this asset. The revenues generated because of the U.S. Market will be astronomical. Thank you for your attention to this matter!" Vance is going to be President in a couple of months, isn't he.

For me at least, it's primarily a question of privacy. Age verification requires identity verification, which can aid criminal behavior and potentially allowing retaliation for some posted comment. This in turn limits freedom to speak one's mind and increases risk.

Hello, I would like to make a suggestion and see if you find it interesting. Since we now have an advanced bracelet that is superior to the watch from the first game, I would like to propose an upgrade that could be purchased with science in Grounded 2. The upgrade would be a map that displays the tunnels while exploring, so players don’t get lost inside them.

Wasn't it Pascal, the Shield Beaver with the unique Beaver racials and the six fingers feat ?

TL;DW - Moscow still believes that it has the right to dictate the laws, alliances, military size and might, language, and every aspect of Ukrainian society without having to pay for a very costly occupation.

I'm hoping that Avowed 2 shows the same growth as Outer Worlds 2, but I am concerned that the improvements don't seem to be increasing sales. Although in retrospect, I'm the target audience for these games, and I still played them on Gamepass instead of paying full price. So I think the business model is more an issue than the quality or marketability of the game.

Long time lurker here. For whatever reason still playing this game in current year - thankfully with some great mods like Elric's which dramatically improve the balance and experience of the game. I just got finished up with my latest run, using BPM + Community Patch and All Upscaling (Upwards only). Used the following party (Note that I used mods to change the character classes and attributes around so that I could effectively have a full custom party without missing dialogue) Me: Crusader (Devoted / Bleakwalker) Eder: Crusader (Devoted / Bleakwalker) Xoti: SC Beguiler Custom Char: SC Priest of Wael Tekehu: SC Skald The party was the most effective of any that I had ever done. The two crusaders used a Greatsword + Morningstar (Willbreaker w/ Modal always on) and were the primary front-liners. Once past the early game, they would have enough engagement slots and survivability to survive nearly anything. Triumph of the crusaders (Strong AOE for ~100+ seconds + full heal on kill) made it so the action economy of the priest was incredible. Almost zero reason to ever use healing spells other than in emergencies. The crusaders would use the Acc + Crit auras and the Heal/Armor ones. Because the Acc aura doesn't fully stack with the acc stance, I would make both of them use the upgraded cleaving stance. This would obliterate packs with FoD spam, hitting 200+ regularly on the greatsword character. The Skald would usually open with an empowered Eld Nary or summoned weapons w/ the unique sabre and then switch back to using a pike w/ the deflection reduction modal. The beguiler was incredibly strong and almost never needed to attack. The debuffs from the willbreaker (usually -10 or more Will + -25 fort), the Ngati Tusk w/ Hunter of Hunter, and nearly every affliction under the sun would debuff the enemies to the point where almost any skill would land and have a high crit rate. I think I killed the Magran Teeth dragon in under 20 seconds because the party just did so much damage (Eld Nary carrying big time). Maybe mortar monk does more damage, but this party has been the strongest in the 10+ variations of potd upscaled runs I had done. Haven't tried megabosses yet but I will soon Not sure why I made this post, but just wanted to give a big shoutout to Boerer, Thelee, and Elric for all the useful posts, mod contributions, etc. After playing so many different CRPGs over the years I just really appreciate how good the systems and depth are in deadfire. Rogue Trader, BG3, DOS2, are all great games but none of them have had me constantly lurking forums like a madman quite like deadfire has.

The name they wrote also started with a P, so perhaps something got mangled from some AI hallucination, but it was definitely not Pallegina. I felt like I was having a stroke I had to keep rereading this comment to understand what this person was asserting, it was so bizarre and wrong.

Just released a mod that reworks the Watcher abilities (...of Death's Herald and ...of the Lost abilities) slightly on the Nexus. I was tired of them just taking up space on my abilities bar only to get used zero times ever. The most notable changes are that the abilities are no longer 1/rest, instead you refresh their use through dealing damage or getting kills. The afflictions caused by the upgraded abilities are now also upgraded on crit. There are some other minor changes as well which are all explained in the description on the mod's Nexus page.

Remember this guy. He's got something on his mind. He goes on for an hour and a half, and it's not boring, but you can skip to the final segment if you like.

Yeah, I noticed a few days ago, the internet was awash with end of the world for gold and silver trader messages. Australia's ABC News speculate it because of the uncertainty around the US Feds independence and some have conspiracy theories like this guy... I honestly don't know enough about the big picture to have an opinion of my own

As I work on a mod to prevent crashes with Mohora Tanga self-proc overflows, I stumbled across something interesting about Heartbeat Drumming and Swift Flurry. At the mechanical level, these two abilities work in different ways, and the difference matters. Swift Flurry simply fires a primary attack 33% of the time on crit as you would imagine it works. Every melee weapon crit can trigger it. Very straight forward. Heartbeat Drumming, on the other hand, works in a different way. When you crit with a melee weapon, 25% of the time it applies a status effect to the target that cannot stack with itself and that status effect then triggers a primary attack from the monk against the target. This extra step is important due to the order in which scripted attacks resolve. In effect, this means that HBD will only trigger once for most weapons that self-proc (such as Mohora Tanga) or for weapons that launch multiple attacks that can proc concurrently (such as Ball and Chain, Sanguine Great Sword, or Sun and Moon), depending on how the attacks these weapons proc are scripted. This is similar to how cleaving stance works under the hood. This means that HBD is much less useful for chain proc builds than Swift Flurry, not just because the chance to proc is lower, but also because it will always only get one bite at the apple for each set of self-procs or set of eligible attacks that proc concurrently. To illustrate, a double crit from Sun and Moon should have .747 probability to proc at least one extra SF/HBD attack if they both worked as I assume the community has always thought that they do. However, since HBD can only proc once on the concurrent attacks, that means the actual probability for at least one extra attack is .663. Mohora Tanga is even crazier - with my mod running that cuts off self-procs of Red Flag Flying at 50 in a row, the full chain will only proc one HBD. Still a meaningful improvement, but less useful, and as you look at the odds to get a respectable chain going, the odds are impacted more and more.

I know in Grounded 1, endgame included toilet seat teleporters but this game is so vast and different in a sense, I think those toilet seat teleporters would be beneficial and extremely useful as the park gets larger sooner than later. I know ziplines are coming in a future update but Im just envisioning alot of lag with ziplines going everywhere. Food for thought, Thank you, tt

Thank you for the suggestions Kvellen, and you are correct; I am playing in turn based mode. I tried what you suggested, specifically I loaded the auto save made when I enter the arena and before starting combat began by disabling turn based mode. I then fought the Tyrant without using any spells that dismiss it or any of the other summons made by the Tyrant. I focus the attack on the Tyrant, taking it down before then slaying the remaining summons. But still the game doesn't seem to react and the field is still up around the arena, with nothing available to interact with. Is there a way to report this to Obsidian along with a save file?

These days it might take some time I assume. Maybe we tag @SChin (hi Sam) for a quick nudge to know if the submission was received. Cheers!

Grigory Yeremeev, a Russian politician said the obvious. Russia can't archive its objectives. Are Satelite images, video footage, video confirmed loses and even Russian themselves confirm heavy RU casualties.

I think that the black widow shoud have very high stun

Me and my friend would like to suggest buggy armor, flashlights hats for the buggies,

lolol, apparently the only reason why Musk wasn't on the Epstein Island is because the other billionaire pedophiles thought he was a loser. Musk wrote a mail to Epstein because he heard there was a new party, he wanted to know when to arrive. Epstein forwarded that mail to his assistant with just "deal with it" and the assistant replied to Musk that the island will be closing down and there won't be a party. There's a glimmer of comic in this vile mess.